"Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary" (AUF, forthcoming 2018). NEW BOOK edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta. Cover and Table of contents (PDF). Creative Commons

Abstract

"Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary" is a stimulating collection of over 100 essays on transformative alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values.

In the post-development imagination, 'development' would no longer be the organizing principle of social life. The book presents worldviews and practices from around the world in a collective search for an ecologically wise and socially just world. It also offers critical essays on a number of false solutions that those in power are proposing in an attempt to 'greenwash' development.

The 120+ contributors to the volume include activists, academics, and practitioners, with a wealth of experience in their respective fields of engagement. The book focuses on the conceptualisation and practice of radical alternatives to ‘development’. It also challenges mainstream or superficial solutions to global crises, including ‘green economy’ and ‘sustainable development’. What has been missing is a broad transcultural compilation of concrete concepts, worldviews and practices from around the world, challenging the modernist ontology of universalism in favour of a multiplicity of possible worlds. This is what it means to call for a pluriverse.

The book follows the structure of an encyclopedia, with short 1000-word entries for each of the key terms. The entries are written by invited authors. In the list of authors you might recognize Vandana Shiva, Serge Latouche, Wolfgang Sachs, Silvia Federici, Nnimmo Bassey, Gustavo Esteva, Katherine Gibson, Maristella Svampa and many more.

Cover and Table of contents.

Forthcoming, 2018

Publisher: Authors Up Front (self-publishing platform for the creative community; Delhi, India). See: http://authorsupfront.com/

License: Creative Commons

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EDITORS:
Ashish Kothari • Ariel Salleh • Arturo Escobar
Federico Demaria • Alberto Acosta
PLURIVERSE
A Post-Development Dictionary

Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary is a stimulating collection of over 100 essays on
transformative alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its
structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values.
In the post-development imagination, 'development' would no longer be the organizing principle of
social life. The book presents worldviews and practices from around the world in a collective search for
an ecologically wise and socially just world. It also offers critical essays on a number of false solutions
that those in power are proposing in an attempt to ‘greenwash’ development. The 120+ contributors to
the volume include activists, academics, and practitioners, with a wealth of experience in their
respective fields of engagement.
Contents
Foreword
Editors' Preface
Editors’ Introduction
Development and its
Crises: Global Experiences
Africa
Asia
Europe
Oceania
North America
South America
Universalising the Earth:
Reformist Solutions
BRICS Emergence
Circular Economy
Climate Smart Agriculture
Development Aid
Digital Tools
Earth System Governance
Ecomodernism
Ecosystem Service Trading
Efficiency
Geoengineering
Green Economy
Lifeboat Ethics
Neo-extractivism
Reproductive Engineering
Smart City
Sustainable Development
Transhumanism
A People's Pluriverse:
Transformative
Alternatives
Agaciro
Agdals
Agroecology
Alter-globalisation
Movement
Alternative Currencies
Arbitration for Sovereign
Debt
Autonomy
Biocivilisation
Body Politics
Buddhism & Wisdom
Based Compassion
Buen Vivir
Chinese Religions
Christian Eco-theology
Civilisational Transitions
Commons
Community Economies
Comunalidad
Convivialism
Conviviality
Cooperative Ecosystems
Country
Deep Ecology
Degrowth
Democratic Economy in
Kurdistan
Direct Democracy
Earth Spirituality
Eco-anarchism
Ecofeminism
Eco-positive Design
Ecosocialism
Ecovillages
Energy Sovereignty
Environmental Justice
Food Sovereignty &
Autonomy
Free Software
Gift Economy
Gross National Happiness
Hinduism & Social
Transformation
Human Rights
Hurai
Ibadism
ICCAs as Territories of Life
Islamic Ethics
Jain Ecology
Judaic Tikkun Olam
Kametsa Asaike
Kawsak Sacha
Kyosei
Latin American &
Caribbean Feminisms
Liberation Theology
Life Projects
Mediterraneanism
Minobimaatisiiwin
Nature Rights
Nayakrishi Andolan
Negentropic Production
New Matriarchies
New Water Paradigm
Open Localisation
Pacific Feminisms
Pacifism
PeaceWomen
Pedagogy
Permaculture
Popular, Social & Solidary
Economy
Post-economy
Prakritik Swaraj
Queer Love
Radical Ecological
Democracy (Eco-swaraj)
Revolution
Rural Reconstruction
Sea Ontologies
Sentipensar
Slow Movement
Social Ecology
Social Solidarity Economy
Tao Worldview
Transition Movement
Tribunal on Rights of
Nature
Ubuntu
Undeveloping the North
Wages for Housework
Worker-led Production
Zapatista Autonomy
Contact: chikikothari@gmail.com